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TIFF 2025 Winners & Nominees

The 2025 Toronto International Film Festival took place on September 4, 2025 (Toronto, Canada). Hamnet won the People's Choice Award. Every winner and nominee in all 7 categories is below.

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People's Choice Award
Hamnet
Headline winners

TIFF 2025: The Winners

Hamnet won the People's Choice Award against 2 other nominees.

Hamnet (2025) movie poster People's Choice Award

People's Choice Award

Hamnet

2025 · Biography, Drama, History · Echo Score 84 · $109M worldwide

With Chloé Zhao

1 win from 1 nomination at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival

Academy Award-winning writer‑director Chloé Zhao brings Hamnet to life, exploring the intimate tale of love, grief, and family that inspired William Shakespeare to write his enduring tragedy Hamlet. The film portrays the emotional landscape of that loss, showing how personal tragedy fueled his art.

About Hamnet
Full results

All 7 TIFF 2025 Categories: Winners & Nominees

7 categories and 13 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

7 categories · 13 nominations

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TIFF 2025 Best International Short Film

1 nominee

No winner is recorded for this category.

By genre

The Genres Behind the TIFF 2025 Winners

Drama led with 8 nominations across 8 films and won 4. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 4 wins · 8 nominations · 50%
  2. Comedy 2 wins · 3 nominations · 67%
  3. Crime 1 win · 2 nominations · 50%
  4. Documentary 1 win · 2 nominations · 50%
  5. Mystery 0 wins · 2 nominations · 0%
  6. Biography 1 win · 1 nomination · 100%
  7. History 1 win · 1 nomination · 100%
  8. Thriller 1 win · 1 nomination · 100%
  9. Fantasy 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
  10. Horror 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
2025 season

How the Rest of the 2025 Awards Season Voted

The other 18 ceremonies of 2025, with the winner of each top prize. Anora won the most of them: 6.

All 2025 awards
Earlier years

Previous TIFF Editions

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The TIFF page has every year back to 1981.

Every TIFF ceremony

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TIFF 2025: Questions & Answers

The top prize and the date of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, answered from the results on this page.

Who won the People's Choice Award at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival?

Hamnet (2025) won the People's Choice Award. The other nominees were Frankenstein and Wake Up Dead Man.

About Hamnet

When was the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival?

The 2025 Toronto International Film Festival took place on September 4, 2025 (Toronto, Canada). The database has 7 categories and 13 nominations for it.